Twain, Groucho & Mencken on Politics and Politicians

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies."

--- Groucho Marx

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."

--- H.L. Mencken

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and thus clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

--- H.L. Mencken

"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."

--- Mark Twain

"When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible."

--- Mark Twain

"The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

--- Mark Twain

Remind you of anyone?